According to the IBEF (India Brand Equity Foundation), India’s retail market is set to grow to USD 1,200 billion by 2021. Whether the growth comes from brick and mortar stores, online platforms or omnichannel, it’s quite clear that the customers will be the ones in the driving seat.

When it comes to the food industry, technology has created waves in the form of takeaways and pickups gaining popularity when considering ordering food. The travel food industry probably won’t be far behind in this aspect.

In the competitive modern-day market, brands need to create strong customer loyalty if they want to survive the multitude of micro- and macro-environmental factors. In spite of recession plaguing brands at a macro-level, and corporate reorganization at the micro-level, loyal consumers will keep returning to the same products, thus creating long term, sustainable business growth.

Enter Endless Aisle, which marries the two-shopping experience together. But here is where the retailers frequently commit the common mistakes. Retailers often feel that the easiest way to implement their endless aisle solution is to just replicate their eCommerce website on a tablet or kiosk.

Today, with the wave of digitalization, retail in India has turned into a large web of offline entities, online websites, start-ups, international labels, private labels, licensed brands and many more.

Over the years Riyaaz has assured a cumulative expansion of Impresario's operations across the country by establishing 48 restaurants across 15 cities. Its umbrella of brands include Mocha, Smoke House Deli, Salt Water Cafe, Prithvi Café, The Tasting Room, Social Slink & Bardot, the very recent and successful brand FLEA Bazaar Cafe.

The deal includes partial liquidity for over 100 of 350 Qwikcilver employees who hold stock options in the company. Started in 2006, Qwikcilver had a majority market share in the gift card market with annualised gross transaction value of $1.5 billion across India, Middle East and Southeast Asia.

Traders "put to fire Chinese goods at more than 1,500 places all over the country, including Delhi," CAIT Secretary General Praveen Khandelwal said. In the national capital, the traders' body protested against China by burning Chinese goods at Sadar Bazar

The Best Price Modern Wholesale Store will meet all needs of underserved small businesses such as kiranas/resellers, offices & institutions (O&I) and hotels, restaurants, and caterers (HORECA) in the region under one roof, according to the company.

A recent Morgan Stanley report said it had built in revenues of $8 billion for FY20 from Flipkart in Walmart's consolidated numbers which implied a GMV of $13 billion but following the regulatory changes, there would be two-fold impact on revenues.